hand tool
noun
any tool or implement designed for manual operation.
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[hand-tool]
/ ˈhændˌtul /
verb (used with object)
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On May 9, 1933, Thompson received the patent for the cross-shaped screw head and the hand tool used to drive it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
He retrieved a backpack with water from his engine, sprayed into the ground with a couple gallons of water and dug up the dirt with his hand tool until he was satisfied it was cool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026
Some of the students, he says, “may never have held a hand tool, never used a measuring tape or a square. They have not developed skills enough to get into an apprenticeship program.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
Meanwhile, as thousands of people turned their attention to household DIY tasks, more than 5,600 amateur builders required hospital attention after coming into contact with a electric hand tool.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2022
The Tinguian ordinarily wears a head-ax thrust into his belt, and when at work this is his hand tool.
From Philippine Folk Tales by Mabel Cook Cole
The simplest application of a principle of mechanics to an every-day hand-tool may convert it into what is called a machine.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight
The economy was built around wood cutting, charcoal burning, backward animal husbandry, hand-tool agriculture, hand-craft industry, the rudiments of commerce and finance centered in trading cities.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Scott Nearing
The divergence from European to an Anglo-American hand-tool design and the approximate date that it occurred can be suggested by a comparison of contemporary illustrations.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh
This quest motivated three centuries of toolmakers and brought vitality to hand-tool design.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh
"Go get from the barn the pliers, the hand-tool that pinches."
From Blind Man's Lantern by George Luther Schelling
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